Loading Samples and Saving Custom DRP Files in TL Drum Rehab

In addition to using the DRP files that come with TL Drum Rehab, TL Drum Rehab lets you load your own samples and save custom DRP files. While you can load samples in both the Trigger and Expert panels, the Samples panel provides the most extensive features for loading samples and saving custom DRP files. The following example describes loading several snare samples layered by dynamics and then saving them as a custom DRP file.

Loading samples and saving a custom DRP file:

1 Insert TL Drum Rehab on a mono audio track.

2 In the Library browser, select File > Show All Volumes. The Library browser displays the root level of your computer.

3 Navigate to the directory where the snare samples are located. Double-click a volume or directory to open it in the Library browser, or click the disclosure triangle to the left of the volume or directory name to reveal its contents.

If you want to import samples from a CD, and you don’t see the CD you may have just inserted, select File > Refresh All Volumes.

4 To audition a file before importing it, enable Auto-Audition and click the sample name in the Library browser.

5 Select the Samples panel (see Samples Panel Display and Controls).

6 Select the desired number of Zones from the # Of Zones pop-up menu. This example uses 6 Zones for 6 samples of a snare hit all recorded at different dynamics from p to fff. (See # of Zones.)

7 Select the Zone into which you want to load the first sample. In this example the samples will be loaded from soft to loud, so select the left-most Zone first. (See TL Drum Rehab Velocity Map and Velocity Zones.)

8 In the Library browser, double-click the desired audio file (WAV, AIF, or SD2) to load it into the selected Zone.

9 Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each new sample until all the samples have been loaded into the corresponding Velocity Zones.

For more variety of sound, you can load more samples into as many as four Clips per Zone. (See Clips.)

10 Click the Play button to audition the sample loaded into the currently selected Zone and adjust the Waveshaping controls and other Samples panel parameters until you get the sound you want.

11 In the Library browser, navigate to the directory where you want to save the loaded samples as a new DRP file.

TL Drum Rehab provides a User DRPs directory in the Library for storing your custom DRP files.

12 Select File > Save New DRP File. The new DRP file appears highlighted at the top of the browser list as “Drum Samples.drp.”

13 Click and rename the file to something identifiable. In this example, the samples were recordings of a Noble and Cooley snare, so it is named “NC Snare 1.”

14 Press Enter (if you do not press Enter, the new DRP will not be saved). The new DRP file appears in the current directory.

15 Select the new DRP file in the Library browser and choose Edit > Add To Favorites to readily access to the new DRP file in the future.